This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an AI/ML Engineer SME based in the United States. The AI/ML Engineer SME will serve as a senior technical authority responsible for shaping scalable AI and machine learning architecture within a complex modernization program. You’ll design and support end-to-end ML pipelines spanning data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership across cloud-native, distributed, and multi-tenant environments. You’ll help embed MLOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, security, responsible AI, and automation into enterprise machine learning solutions. Working within an Agile development environment, you’ll collaborate with technical teams and guide decisions around ML platforms, tools, frameworks, and services. Your expertise will directly contribute to highly available, secure, performant, and cost-efficient AI/ML capabilities supporting mission-critical applications. This is a remote opportunity for an experienced AI/ML professional seeking meaningful technical ownership and the chance to influence large-scale modernization efforts.